Example sentences of "he [verb] the [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as I watched him pick his way along the lifeless paths , I understood how much of him expected the whole world to be mournful now that Montaine had abandoned it . |
| 2 | There is no-one to round him off , hold him back and help him to lessen the inevitable path to the eccentricity . |
| 3 | Will 1991 see him take the final step to greatness ? |
| 4 | Lapworth was passionate in his search for truth and exactness in the solution of geological problems , and diplomatic in his presentation , gifts which enabled him to propose the accepted solution to a famous controversy . |
| 5 | Mr Browning out of the kindness of his heart and because Mr Landor I believe was once his champion when no one thought anything of him brought the old gentleman to Siena and prevailed upon Mr Story his friend to take him in . |
| 6 | Born the son of a bank official , he was 23 when he made the five-week voyage to Britain aboard the Northern Star armed with an Auckland University degree to take up his scholarship place at Balliol College , Oxford , in the early 1960s . |
| 7 | And on MONDAY he tackles the 23-mile stretch to Lytchett Minster , with Bournemouth beckoning . |
| 8 | He hugged the old tailor to him , kissing his cheek while the tears rolled from his eyes . |
| 9 | As he scanned the laden shelves to left and right , there was suddenly a sound like a hundred ball-bearings being dropped from a height on to the bare floorboards . |
| 10 | He beat Martin Molony 's record of 92 wins in 1950 , that red letter day arriving on a Sunday in November when he rode the Ulster-owned Atone to a victory at Fairyhouse . |
| 11 | Once again he led the storming party to the checkout flourishing the swipe card . |
| 12 | Will he make the appropriate representations to his colleagues at the Department of Transport ? |
| 13 | Well , he posted the finished text to his publishers from Istanbul about three weeks after he arrived there . |
| 14 | With what seemed super-human strength and control he drew the short sword to the left , then back to the right , his intestines spilling out onto the cobbles . |
| 15 | Of Dustin 's performance , though , Clive Barnes in The New York Times wrote , ‘ He has the strange ability to be himself on the stage . |
| 16 | He has the heavenly Spirit to be his teacher . |
| 17 | He needs the main artery to his heart replacing . |
| 18 | He needs the main artery to his heart replacing . |
| 19 | He told the whole story to Marc , he said , and there was another row , with Marc calling him everything under the sun . |
| 20 | Furthermore , in his continued discussion of the problem in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego he likens the manic state to festivals such as the Roman Saturnalia , ‘ which owe their cheerful character to the release which they bring ’ . |
| 21 | Bede says that he reduced the southern Saxons to a more grievous servitude on the death of Berhthun ( HE IV , 15 ) , and the situation in Kent may have been similar , the kingdom reduced to economic and political disarray.27 |
| 22 | He trudged the long road to Keswick or often to Wythburn where the carrier , Jackson , would take him to Keswick when the Exhibition was held annually . |
| 23 | He committed the Soviet Union to a policy directed at removing the military bases and armed forces of outside powers from foreign territories . |
| 24 | How much more your Heavenly Father will he give the Holy Spirit to those who ask of him ? |
| 25 | Now Dr Winfield — and I have ratified this — made 127 sorties ; he could not have enjoyed his period at the Institute very much because he never seemed to he there , But he would come on a station with some project he wanted to fully research and he believed the only way to fully research these things was to " try them out on the dog " . |
| 26 | The former Lord Chancellor , Lord Hailsham , said he believed the scientific community to be a responsible one . |
| 27 | He hauled the sobbing boy to his feet . |
| 28 | He handed the precious jar to Mary . |
| 29 | As he opened the front door to his rooms , his shirt collar was slightly damp . |
| 30 | He opened the connecting door to the garage and stepped quickly into the darkness , feeling his way around the car and to the sliding door , which he moved open a few inches , allowing himself to slip out into the night . |